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TOYS - CORE WAVE 4 - ON SALE

Core Wave 4 is on Mattel's own shelf at $10, and BigBadToyStore has run out of three of them

Ram Man, Tri-Klops and second looks at Teela and Skeletor went up on Mattel Creations today at $10.00 each, and all four are still orderable this afternoon.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 heman.org news desk via Mattel Creations

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Core Wave 4 is on Mattel's own shelf at $10, and BigBadToyStore has run out of three of them
Masters of the Universe 2026 Movie Core Ram Man (JKH97) and Tri-Klops (JKH96). Mattel product photography, from the Mattel Creations listings, placed side by side by heman.org.

Mattel put four more Core figures from the movie line on its own store today, at $10.00 each, and all of them are still orderable this afternoon. Ram Man and Tri-Klops are the ones to move on. Neither character has had a Core figure before. Both read sold out at BigBadToyStore, which lists them at $11.99 and offers a waitlist in place of a button [1].

The four listings carry a publication time of 11:00 Central, within four minutes of each other [4]. Creations is better known for convention exclusives and members-only drops, but it has been putting ordinary line product on the same shelf through the autumn. A whole wave in one morning is the furthest it has taken that.

Core Tri-Klops in olive drab, a dark helmet with a single red lens set in the visor band, a ribbed hose over one shoulder, pouch strips down both thighs, holding a long green rifle across his body.

What Mattel says is in the box

Both figures run to the format the Core line has used from the start: 5.5 inch scale, fourteen movable joints, and a card rather than the window box the Chronicles figures come in. Mattel’s copy names the actors as well, Jon Xue Zhang for Ram Man and Kojo Attah for Tri-Klops. Ram Man wears an enclosed grey helmet with the face left open and chain links moulded across the pauldrons, over a red pleated tunic and green leggings, and he carries the double-bladed Battle Axe. Tri-Klops is in olive drab with pouch strips down both thighs and a ribbed hose running from the collar over one shoulder. Mattel’s copy says his visor rotates to show three sets of eyes, and a rifle-style blaster comes with him.

The card is split down the middle, a He-Man side lit orange and a Skeletor side lit purple, and each figure sits on his own half. Ram Man’s plate reads RAM MAN, HEROIC HUMAN BATTERING RAM in orange on the red. Tri-Klops gets EVIL & SEES EVERYTHING in blue on the purple.

Core Ram Man on his card, the figure and the black battle axe in a clear tray, with a film still of Jon Xue Zhang in the helmet printed beside the nameplate.

The Core line found room for a second He-Man before it found room for these two

The April launch was He-Man, Teela, Skeletor, Skel-Knight and Mekaneck. July added Man-At-Arms and a second He-Man with battle paint on his face and arms, so the shelf carried the same hero twice before Ram Man or Tri-Klops had reached a card at all, and their cards had been photographed and shown round that same month [2].

Wave 4 settles it, and it repeats two characters while it does so, because Teela and Skeletor are here for the second time as well. A peg of Skeletors sells and a peg of Tri-Klopses is a gamble, so the split is not hard to account for. But Ram Man and Tri-Klops are on a Core card now, orderable, a season after the card art went round.

The April Core Skeletor in blue with a purple robe and a bone-white ram staff, beside the Wave 4 Skeletor moulded in clear green with purple gauntlets, a black tattered cape and a purple ram-skull staff.

The second Skeletor is the translucent one, and the listing copy never says so

Put the two side by side and the Wave 4 Skeletor is a different figure rather than a repaint. The body is moulded in clear green, so the light carries through the shoulder and the cape’s weave shows through the edge of an arm. The cape itself is black and ragged where April’s was a purple robe, the gauntlets and boots are purple, and the Havoc Staff is a purple ram skull with pink gems set in the eyes.

Mattel’s own listing copy covers the new head sculpt, the staff and what it calls a dramatically designed right hand, and never once uses the word translucent [3]. Toy Habits called it Translucent Skeletor in its July packaging reveal, and the name stuck. The April Skeletor now reads sold out on Creations, so the clear one is the only movie Skeletor on that shelf today.

The April Core Teela with her hair loose, a gold sword and a silver pistol, beside the Wave 4 Teela with her hair pulled up into a topknot and a silver sword.

Teela’s second pass is a smaller change and an easier one to miss on a peg. The costume is the same gold bodice over white and grey. But the head sculpt has the hair pulled up rather than falling over one shoulder, the sword is silver where April’s was gold, and the pistol has gone, swapped for what Mattel’s copy calls a Rifle Staff. She is not the Origins movie Teela whose Target release date moved to today. That one stands 5.5 inches as well, but it is an Origins figure on a Target card, listed at $21.99 when we read it in September.

Where the four of them stand this afternoon

Every Creations listing was read first hand after the drop, and all of them are live at $10.00: Ram Man (JKH97), Tri-Klops (JKH96), Teela (JNR43) and Skeletor (JNR44). At BigBadToyStore the base price on the same figures is $11.99, and Teela is the only one of the four with stock; Ram Man, Tri-Klops and Skeletor all read sold out behind a waitlist. Our catalogue pages for Ram Man and Tri-Klops collect every other figure either character has had, and the encyclopedia entries for Ram Man and Tri-Klops cover both of them from 1983 on.

So Creations has all four and BigBadToyStore has one of them. Buy the new two from the people who made them!

[1] All four BigBadToyStore listings were read on 1 October: Core Ram Man 186043, Core Tri-Klops 186042, Core Skeletor (Ver. 2.0) 186040 and Core Teela (Ver. 2.0) 186041. The Teela listing also carries a Substandard Packaging tier at $11.39. That is the same figure in a knocked-about card rather than a second product.

[2] The packaging shots turned up on 9 July and we ran them that morning, alongside the Skeletor and Teela reveals from the day before. The retailer listings quoted then pointed at a September to October window, which has held.

[3] Creations lists the figure as “Masters of the Universe 2026 Movie Skeletor Action Figure”, item JNR44. The April figure carries that product name word for word under item JKH92. The body copy does separate them, on the head sculpt and the hand, but the titles do not, so an order placed off a search result is worth checking against the photograph.

[4] The times are the publication timestamps on the four Creations listings, read the same afternoon: 11:00:02 Central for Ram Man, through to 11:00:05 for Skeletor. The visible page carries no time at all.

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